Rubyvale

Rubyvale is a metropolis in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Rubyvale had a populace of 510. Rubyvale is approximately 61 kilometres west of Emerald. Situated in a locality known as The Gemfields, sapphires are mined drastically inside the area. Rubyvale is home to a small library, a comfort shop/news retailers, put up office, hotel and take-away bottle save, as well as a spread of accommodation and fossicking regions.

Some famous locations to go fossicking are the Bob n John Mine, Bobby Dazzler and Pats Gems. If you love gems and jewelry then possibilities are you will love this metropolis. Set inside the coronary heart of the Sapphire Gemfields, Rubyvale is domestic to numerous gift stores where you'll discover the whole thing from sapphire necklaces to sparkling diamond jewelry. Made from 'billy boulders' and ironbark logs, the Rubyvale Hotel is a quirky place worth sorting out.

Then head underground on a mine tour where you will be able to revel in cooler temperatures in addition to a lesson in sapphire mining. Explore the tunnels together with your manual earlier than attempting your luck at one of several fossicking parks found close to to the town. Thankfully at these parks the staff have already done the digging for you - so all it's left to do is grasp a bucket and start sieving. Whether you get lucky or now not, you tought to in reality treat your self to a meal and a lager on the neighborhood pub earlier than heading in your subsequent vacation spot.